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Prof. Dr.
Elisabeth Abergel

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Elisabeth Abergel is an environmental studies scholar currently teaching in the sociology department at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). She obtained her master’s degree in molecular genetics from the University of Waterloo and worked as a bench scientist in the pharmaceutical sector as well as several biotech start-ups for many years before obtaining her PhD in Environmental Studies from York University (Toronto). She taught Global Environmental Politics at York University’s Glendon College where she was chair of the International Studies Department. She is an associate professor at UQAM where she has been teaching Sociology of Science and Technology as well as Environmental Sociology courses. She is affiliated with the Institut des Sciences de l’Environnement (ISE) at UQAM where she teaches courses on sustainable food systems. Elisabeth’s area of expertise is on the politics and science of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Her main research focus is on life technologies and agricultural transformation, technocapitalism and the de/rematerialization of life (from cell to whole organism), the bioeconomy of food and agriculture and more generally, the relations between the promissory economies of technoscientific development and the environment.